Word: blocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recommendation must have a death wish." Added Gustave Levy, senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co.: "I understand their fears, but they're acting too precipitately." Levy's remark drew a fast rebuke from Managing Partner William R. Salomon of Salomon Bros., the bond house and big block trader. "The vote in the special committee was 16 to 4," said Salomon. "If Levy wants to dissent he should resign from the committee. Everyone seems to be forgetting the public interest...
...book's thesis that Russia and the U.S. are racing to blast off for Mars, and that virtually the entire American press, babbling about the nation's social needs, is trying to block the U.S. effort. An American labor leader turns out to be a Soviet agent, and a neurotic black astronaut who has not made his peace with the white world (an attitude the author finds entirely outrageous) goes mental while in moon orbit. The loudest noise to be heard is Drury rubbing his hands together as he exposes the pinko thinking of all those fluoridating reporters...
...enough to question the process that elected them. In his State of the State speech, Reagan suggested shortening the biennial spasm of campaigning by moving his state's primary from June to September. It would, as Reagan noted, save both money and the public patience. The chief stumbling block to such a plan is that delegates to presidential nominating conventions are chosen in the primary; those conventions are normally held in July and August. But if anyone takes Reagan's plan seriously enough, even those galas could be staged later-after Labor Day, at least. Pushing the whole...
Since July, Cambridge's four leading Xerox copiers have lined up along a two-block stretch of Mass Ave. servicing the copying needs of undergraduates and faculty members...
Both Houses of Congress reacted to his announcement with attempts to block further involvement. In the House, 64 Democrats introduced a bill to ban American air or sea combat support for "any military operations in Cambodia...